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UNC Greensboro, Reeling from Dissent Over Program Cuts, Gets $5 M. Contemporary Art Gift
The Weatherspoon Art Museum at the University of North Carolina Greensboro will receive a gift of 270 contemporary artworks worth $5 million from Carole Cole Levin, a North Carolina-based artist and philanthropist.Christie's Will Sell Monet Painting From Chicago's Union League Club At 20th Century Evening Sale The gifted works represent more than 150 artists, the bulk of whom were born in the U.S. and half of them born before 1950, and will start to be exhibited in spring 2025. Separate funding will also allow the museum to renovate its building and establish an arts and humanities center in Levin’s name. It is...
Endeavor Explores Selling Frieze, Including Its Magazine, Fairs, and London Exhibition Space
Endeavor Group Holdings, a holding company that owns the namesake talent agency and several other sports and entertainment enterprises, is exploring selling off some of its event assets, including Frieze, the company announced Thursday. The potential sale of assets also covers, but is not limited to, two tennis tournaments, the Miami Open and the Madrid Open, according to a release.Without A New Approach, Art Fairs Are at Risk of Strangling Galleries The news comes after Silver Lake, a private equity firm based in Menlo Park, California, announced it would take Endeavor private after being listed on the New York Stock Exchange...
Rosana Paulino Wins Munch Museum’s Inaugural $25,000 Award Celebrating Artistic Freedom
The Munch Museum in Oslo will present Brazilian artist Rosana Paulino with its inaugural Munch Award honoring artistic freedom during a ceremony on Thursday. The prize includes $25,000 and “recognizes an artist who has distinguished themselves with courage and integrity throughout their career.”The institution holds the world’s largest collection of works by Norwegian painter Edvard Munch, and the award is meant as a tribute to his legacy of upholding “artistic expression” and creative liberty, the museum said.Paulino’s work centers on social, ethnic, and gender issues faced by Black women in Brazil due to racism and the legacy of slavery. She...
2025 Bienal de São Paulo to Take the Title of ‘Not All Travellers Walk Roads – Of Humanity as Practice’
Bonaventure Soh Bejeng Ndikung, the chief curator of 2025 Bienal de São Paulo, has announced the title and curatorial concept of his forthcoming exhibition, sent to open in the Brazilian city next September.Rising Curator Bonaventure Soh Bejeng Ndikung Casts an International Eye on Berlin and Beyond Titled “Not All Travellers Walk Roads – Of Humanity as Practice,” the exhibition draws its name from a line from the poem “Da calma e do silêncio”(Of calm and silence) by Afrobrazilian poet Conceição Evaristo. In a press release, the curatorial team stated that the biennial’s aim is “to rethink humanity as a verb, a living practice,...
Massive Hoard of Silver Pennies From Norman Conquest Valued at $5.6M
A massive hoard of 1,000-year-old silver pennies found by a group of people learning how to use metal detectors in 2019 were recently valued at $5.6 million (£4.3 million), making it the highest valued treasure in England.Newly Discovered Rooms in Peru Suggest Ancient Society Was Ruled by Women In January 2019, seven people with metal detectors “on a speculative trip to a soggy field” found the 2,584 coins in the Chew Valley area of Bath and North East Somerset. The group spent four to five hours digging up the hoard and were not deterred by a massive thunderstorm. “We didn’t leave...
Gary Indiana, Gimlet-Eyed Writer and Art Critic, Dies at 74
Gary Indiana, a writer whose acid musings on gallery shows and artists defined a era in art criticism, has died at 74. Frieze first reported his death on Thursday morning.Alicia Henry, Artist Whose Modest Works Asked Big Questions About Visibility, Dies at 58 Indiana wrote novels, essays, and magazine columns, often bridging the gap between literary writing and criticism in the process. Although he was widely known as an art critic for the Village Voice during the mid-1980s, and even though he has continued to write literature and art criticism in the decades since, Indiana had by the beginning of the...
How Artists Are Shaping Tech Today for a Better Tomorrow
In an era marked by rapid advancements in technology, artists are increasingly becoming trailblazers at the intersection of creativity and innovation. While the future has always held uncertainty for the arts, today’s challenges — from the rise of artificial intelligence to global instability — demand that artists reimagine their work in new and dynamic ways.Artists and AI: Shaping a Collaborative Future “Sometimes it’s concern or fright of technology and where it can lead us,” said Knight Foundation’s Director of Arts Jennifer Farah during a roundtable discussion at Catalyst: Digital Transformation in the Arts, a forum held in December 2023. “But it...
Far-Right German Politicians Denounce Bauhaus Movement, Calling It ‘The Wrong Path of Modernism’
Politicians with the far-right Alternative for Germany party have criticized the Bauhaus movement of the early 20th century, claiming that its emphasis on austerity and minimalism led modernism in the wrong direction.Visionary Textiles: How Anni Albers Staked a Claim for Herself as a Key Modernist According to the German publication Middeldeutsche Zeitung, members of the party, known as AfD for short, have submitted an official motion, titled “The Wrong Path of Modernism,” that calls for a critical reappraisal of Bauhaus. The motion was submitted to German parliament in advance of a large-scale initiative over the next two years that will celebrate...
Abbas Akhavan to Represent Canada at 2026 Venice Biennale
Abbas Akhavan will represent Canada at the 2026 edition of the Venice Biennale, the National Gallery of Canada in Ottawa, the pavilion’s commissioner, announced on Thursday. For the Canadian Pavilion, Kapwani Kiwanga Considers the Hefty Historical Importance of the Tiny Venetian Seed Bead Canada is one of the few countries to announce its representative for the next Biennale, often considered the Olympics of the country art world. At this year’s Biennale, Canada is represented by Kapwani Kiwanga, the first Black woman to represent the country. Other artists who have taken on the pavilion include Stan Douglas, Isuma, Geoffrey Farmer, David Altmejd, Rebecca...
New Documentary Marks a Milestone Within the Repatriation Debate
When she brought the sounds of Sing Sing to the Whitney Museum’s airy fifth floor in 2016, Andrea Fraser said she did so because prisons and art institutions are “two sides of the same coin of inequality.” If that statement seemed provocative eight years ago, it appears only mildly controversial now, at a time when museums are commonly seen as appendages of racist, colonialist, and deeply unfair systems.Met Returns Greek Artifact to Italy After Researchers Find Links to Looting And that may explain why, in the wonderful, knotty new documentary Dahomey, filmmaker Mati Diop shoots the backrooms of Paris’s Musée Quai...
Collector Libbie Mugrabi Embroiled in Legal Battle with Art-Backed Lending Company
Libbie Mugrabi, the New York–based socialite, art collector, and ex-wife of top art collector David Mugrabi, is embroiled in an ongoing legal battle with the art-backed lending company Art Capital Group (ACG) and its executives, Ian Peck and Terence Doran, over a $3 million loan that never materialized. Julie Mehretu Donates Millions to Whitney so Under 25s Go Free, Libbie Mugrabi Claims Art Lender Stole Her Warhol Painting: Morning Links for October 23, 2024 In court documents, ACG claimed that Mugrabi failed to pay fees associated with a loan application. As collateral, Mugrabi allegedly put up a Jean-Michel Basquiat painting stained with the artist’s...
Ye Reveals ‘Bully’ Album Cover Art by Photographer Daido Moriyama
The cover art for Bully, the next solo album by Ye, the rapper formerly known as Kanye West, features an image taken by the Japanese photographer Daido Moriyama.Marco Anelli Goes Beyond Documentary Photography in New Show at Magazzino Italian Art On Wednesday, Ye posted a black-and-white image of a person’s grinning face to his Instagram account. The person’s teeth are covered in gem-encrusted grills, and the center ones are blacked out. The Italian digital magazine Outpump said in an Instagram post that the image is a reference to the Japanese custom ohaguro, “a symbol before reaching adulthood and after marriage, as well...
Brooklyn Arts Studio Apologizes for Removing Work of Palestinian-American Staffer
UrbanGlass, an arts space and glass-making studio in Brooklyn, has issued a public apology for excluding the work of a Palestinian-American employee from a staff exhibition in March.Activists Cover Picasso's 'Motherhood' Painting with Image of Gazan Mother and Child Sixteen members of the space’s staff subsequently took their pieces out of the exhibition in solidarity with Phil Garip, the artist whose work was taken away. UrbanGlass ultimately canceled the exhibition in which Garip’s work was to appear. Those staff members restaged the canceled show at People’s Forum, a community center for advocacy organizing in Manhattan’s Garment District a week later, in early...
Christie’s CEO Guillaume Cerutti Tries to Pour Cold Water on the Frieze London vs. Art Basel Paris Debate
With Frieze London and Art Basel Paris finally in the rear-view mirror, you’d be forgiven for being tired of the relentless London vs. Paris debate that has dominated art world conversations. In the end, both fairs did well, which somewhat stifled the increasingly boring narrative. In fact, it’s become so tedious that Christie’s CEO, Guillaume Cerutti, felt obliged to try and put the argument to bed by penning an op-ed in The Art Newspaper calling it a “non-troversy.”“I understand the appeal of this binary debate, allowing everyone to share their views,” Cerutti writes. “However, an analysis of the data leads...
London’s Luxury Sector Thrives Off Art Audiences, But Both Are at Risk: Report
Editor’s Note: This story originally appeared in On Balance, the ARTnews newsletter about the art market and beyond. Sign up here to receive it every Wednesday.Report Finds Art Sales Stagnate, Even as the Luxury Sector Continues to Grow London’s luxury sector depends on local museums, galleries, and other cultural spaces bringing in affluent consumers, while cultural institutions rely on luxury brands to attract new audiences, according to a report published earlier this month by Walpole, a UK trade association that oversees high-end British brands. While that connection has been mutually beneficial, the report warned that the luxury market, which contributes $106 billion to the UK economy, could face risks if arts...
Amoako Boafo, Radiohead’s Thom Yorke, and Actor Julianne Moore Among 13,000 Signers of Open Letter Protesting Unlicensed Use of Works to Train AI
A open letter against the mining of artistic works for training artificial intelligence (AI) tools has garnered the public support of artists Joel Shapiro, Gregory Edwards, Amoako Boafo, Joanna Pousette-Dart, Tishan Hsu, as well as photographer and painter Lynn Goldsmith.Sotheby's Will Auction First Artwork Made by Humanoid Robot Ai-Da Using AI Algorithms “The unlicensed use of creative works for training generative AI is a major, unjust threat to the livelihoods of the people behind those works, and must not be permitted,” said the petition, which was released on October 22. The artists join more than 13,000 creative professionals and dozens of organizations...
Billionaire Dmitry Rybolovlev Cleared in Swiss Investigation, Swiss Dealer Yves Bouvier Faces $830 M. Tax Bill
Swiss prosecutors this week dismissed a criminal case against Dmitry Rybolovlev, clearing him of allegations related to the arrest of Swiss art dealer Yves Bouvier in Monaco. The case, initiated by the Office of the Attorney General of Switzerland (OAG) in 2017, accused the Russian billionaire of illegally acting on behalf of a foreign state by allegedly arranging for Bouvier to be apprehended by Monaco’s police. Sotheby's Will Auction First Artwork Made by Humanoid Robot Ai-Da Using AI Algorithms After reviewing the evidence, Swiss authorities concluded that no suspicion justifying an indictment had been established. In a statement, Rybolovlev’s legal team welcomed...
Leonora Carrington’s Mexico City Home Will No Longer Open as a Museum
An alleged dispute between a Mexican university and its union has forced the school to scuttle plans to open the Mexico City home of Leonora Carrington to the public as a museum, according to the Spanish publication El País.Frieze Sculpture Gets Sexy, Serious, and Playful in London's Regent's Park The Surrealist artist’s house will not be off limits entirely. Per the El País report, Carrington’s home will now become a research center, though it will not be the tourist attraction it was initially meant to be. Plans to turn Carrington’s home into a tourist site were first announced in 2021, when Mexico...
As Arts Professionals Abandon Russia Following Ukraine Invasion, a Cohort of Italian Curators and Artists Have Taken on Projects There
In the aftermath of Russia’s invasion of Ukraine in early 2022, the Russian art scene saw an exodus of foreigners and locals alike. Russian artists, curators, filmmakers, and writers left the country in protest and several top figures at art institutions quit their jobs. Among the most prominent non-Russians, New Zealander curator Simon Rees quit his post as director of the Cosmoscow Art Fair and Italian curator Francesco Manacorda left his role as artistic director of V-A-C Foundation, an international arts nonprofit.Russian TV Contributor and Former Political Adviser Charged with Laundering Funds Through Art and Antiques, Flees to Russia At the...
Julie Mehretu Donates Millions to Whitney so Under 25s Go Free, Libbie Mugrabi Claims Art Lender Stole Her Warhol Painting: Morning Links for October 23, 2024
To receive Morning Links in your inbox every weekday, sign up for our Breakfast with ARTnews newsletter.The HeadlinesCollector Libbie Mugrabi Embroiled in Legal Battle with Art-Backed Lending Company JULIE MEHRETU HELPS WHITNEY WAIVE ENTRY FEES. Artist Julie Mehretu has donated $2.25 million to the Whitney Museum of American Art in New York so that visitors aged 25 and younger can visit the museum for free, reports The Wall Street Journal. Her contribution joins Susan Hess’ for a total of $5 million for the “Free 25 and Under” program beginning mid-December and set to last three years. The entrance fee is currently $24 for students and $30 for adults. Mehretu’s abstract paintings sell for...
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